HISTORY FROM PARISHIONERS

Leigh Bakery
This has been reproduced from an article in the Parish e-newsletter
by Pam Humphrey (née Johns) 2007

We were very interested in your pictures of the bakery.  My husband, Trevor Humphrey, baked bread with his father, Geoffrey, until September 1963.  Trevor was 21 and rising at 4am to prepare dough and bake bread, and then delivering sometimes till 5pm.  His father was getting up earlier and working just as long or longer.  His mother managed the shop.  (I was the Saturday girl from 1961 - 1963, and we married at Leigh in December 1966)
At that time bread deliveries were coming to an end throughout the country, and the Bakery business was no longer viable.

Trevor joined the Paras in September 1963, and his parents sold the business a few months later and moved to Suffolk.  We don't believe the new owners baked, but the shop continued as a general grocery store.

 

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